Bangladesh unrest: 24 killed as mob torches hotel; Hindu homes and temples 'targeted' | Latest updates
PTC News Desk: A day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the nation due to a brutal crackdown on a student-led movement, economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was selected to head the country's temporary administration on Tuesday night.
Following her release from prison, BNP leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia voiced worries about the widespread violence, vandalism, and robbery of public resources during the student rebellion, according to the Dhaka Tribune.
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Khaleda Zia's response coincides with claims that a mob in Bangladesh burned alive at least 24 people, including an Indonesian national, at a five-star hotel owned by an Awami League politician after the party's leader, Sheikh Hasina, quit as prime minister and left the nation.
According to news agency PTI, the victims, who were primarily boarders, were burned alive late on Monday night when the mob set fire to the Zabir International Hotel in Joshor district, which is owned by district Awami League general secretary Shahin Chakkladar.
A Hindu organisation in Bangladesh, meanwhile, asserted that after Sheikh Hasina's overthrow, hundreds of Hindu homes, places of business, and temples have been vandalised.
About 8 per cent of Bangladesh's 170 million people are Hindus, and historically, they have tended to favor Hasina's mostly secular Awami League party rather than the opposition coalition that includes a hardline Islamist party.
- With inputs from agencies